A New Year - Same Old Crap
Except it’s not the same old crap and that’s kind of the problem. Sure, there’s a lot of the same old same old. But it’s all the new things being stacked on top of the old that becomes the problem.
So where am I right now? Currently doing my best to keep my head above water mentally. I’ve begun seeing a therapist and it’s been helping with certain things, and raising serious questions for others.
But to be perfectly honest, rather than rant about everything going wrong I’d rather spend time looking towards the future. After being told the last eight years of my life of pain were one large misdiagnosis I’m just oh so done with this crapshoot called life in America.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what my next writing project should be. Something that means a whole hell of a lot to me. Something that really digs into how I feel about life. But what kind of story can I spin to accurately portray these problems without it sounding like one big soap box?
What’s in the works?
As of right now I haven’t done a lot of putting pen to page. However I can say that I am constantly still spinning tales in my head. Every day I’ve been contemplating what the best story arc I can give to display these emotions would be.
Thankfully, I think I have a very good idea on how to display them now. Most of my works are tied into one big cosmos and magic system driven largely by the concept of Ley-Lines. Lately the Post-Apocalyptic genre has been incredibly popular, and so have multiverse themes.
My new story arc is one I’d been mulling around the concept for a while but have finally gotten to really fleshing out the details in my head. Now I need to get some character sheets going, an overall first book arc, and begin world building.
This new story is based on the short story Gaia Nova, and will likely carry the same name. After the Ley-Lines were reactivated on Earth, the magical Nova that reinstated them nearly obliterated life on earth.
Our hero will be a man looking for new beginnings in a dangerous new world. Taking his wits, his training, and his toolkit with him he begins to search for his own life outside of the turmoil of post-Nova society.
His family begged him to stay, believing life beyond the city walls to be dangerous and foolhardy. It didn’t take much to remind them that life inside the walls wasn’t safe either. People are just as dangerous as anything out in the world, and often times more finicky.
Finding a new place to not just survive, but thrive, was top priority. He couldn’t do that when there was always someone strong arming resources for “The good of the whole.”
What’s the main goal?
The entire story will be based around the philosophy of post-scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin. I don’t want to spoil too much about the overall arc, but I will say that they Ley-Lines reach much, much farther than earth. And there are always unknown players coming from the vast void of space.
That being said, the core of the story will focus on survival based on realistic parameters, while reaching towards Ley-Line driven technology to simulate post-scarcity. Or for those of you who don’t know that term, the concept of materializing whatever we need from basic energy. Think Star Trek materializing whatever food they want.
A mechanism of post-scarcity is a massive game changer in how we view resources, and the point of the story will be to really illustrate how post-scarcity mentality can be applied to a world that hasn’t truly reached past post-survival even.
As strange as it may sound, having everything you may want in a device(potentially as big as your phone) really changes how we view human relationships. I truly believe that difference in philosophy is where I tend to really disconnect from people around me.
So all I can do now is write my feelings and hope there are those out there willing to read and understand. What level of frequency will I be writing?
I’d like to have something published on my website again every week or two, so my hope is to begin writing short stories in succession to create the overall arc. I can’t say how well it will go at first, but I imagine I’ll get the hang of it eventually.
If you’re still here with me, I’d like to say thank you for taking the time to read this. I truly appreciate anyone willing to take the time to read any of my work. Peace and Prosperity to you friends.
- Andrew